Republicans sought to extend the vote to all free, white men, while the Whigs wanted to preserve property requirements. Democrats sought to extend the vote to all free, white men, while the Whigs wanted to preserve property requirements.

Democrats sought to extend the vote to all free, white men, while the Republicans wanted to preserve property requirements.

Whigs and democrats sought to extend the vote to all free, white men, while the Whigs wanted to preserve property requirements.

But the Whigs couldn't hold it together, with all their prestige and influence. The eventual undoing of the Whigs, pitting Northern and Southern Whigs against each other and dispersing Whig membership to upstart third parties such as the Know Nothings and the Republicans, was the all-consuming dilemma of slavery.

roosevelt believed that in light of the country's recent military successes, it was unnecessary to use force to achieve foreign policy goals, so long as the military could threaten force. this belief, and his strategy of “speaking softly and carrying a big stick,” shaped much of roosevelt's foreign policy.